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Front Table(Week of November 4th, 2012)
November 3rd, 2012 by Front Table
The Ingenious Dr Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity
Fara, Patricia
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-08
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Science
I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science
Senechal, Marjorie
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-03
¤ Hardcover ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Science
The World of Persian Literary Humanism
Dabashi, Hamid
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-20
¤ Hardcover ( 384 pages )
¤ Category:
Making the European Monetary Union
James, Harold ; Caruana, Jaime ; Caruana, Jaime (Foreword by)
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-19
¤ Hardcover ( 592 pages )
¤ Category:
Aisha’s Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam
Elias, Jamal J.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-15
¤ Hardcover ( 432 pages )
¤ Category: Islamic Studies
Newton and the Origin of Civilization
Buchwald, Jed Z. ; Feingold, Mordechai
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-11
¤ Hardcover ( 544 pages )
¤ Category:
Gandhi and the Stoics: Modern Experiments on Ancient Values
Sorabji, Richard
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-06
¤ Hardcover ( 240 pages )
¤ Category:
From Neighborhoods to Nations: The Economics of Social Interactions
Ioannides, Yannis M.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-04
¤ Hardcover ( 544 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present
Joas, Hans ; Knöbl, Wolfgang
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-04
¤ Hardcover ( 338 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
Avrich, Paul ; Avrich, Karen
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-01
¤ Hardcover ( 528 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
The Secrets of Alchemy (Synthesis)
Principe, Lawrence M.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-01
¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760
Spary, E. C.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-01
¤ Hardcover ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
The Axial Age and Its Consequences
Bellah, Robert N.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-31
¤ Hardcover ( 560 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War
Whitman, James Q.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-31
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression
Burgin, Angus
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
History in the Making
Elliott, J. H.
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Hardcover ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)
Mamdani, Mahmood
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Hardcover ( 168 pages )
¤ Category: History: African
A World Connecting: 1870-1945 (History of the World)
Rosenberg, Emily S. ; Maier, Charles S. ; Ballantyne, Tony ; Burton, Antoinette ; Hoerder, Dirk ; Topik, Steven C.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Hardcover ( 1168 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
What Art Is Like, In Constant Reference to the Alice Books
Tamen, Miguel
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Hardcover ( 128 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America
Levy, Jonathan
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-29
¤ Hardcover ( 432 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
The “Dead Sea Scrolls”: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)
Collins, John J.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-28
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category:
Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation
Cronk, Lee ; Leech, Beth L.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-28
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Book of “Genesis”: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)
Hendel, Ronald
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-28
¤ Hardcover ( 293 pages )
¤ Category:
Why Tolerate Religion?
Leiter, Brian
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-28
¤ Hardcover ( 192 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China’s Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future
Qing, Jiang
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-28
¤ Hardcover ( 266 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
In Time: Poets, Poems, and the Rest
Williams, C. K.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-26
¤ Hardcover ( 240 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
Ryan, Alan
¤ Liveright
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-22
¤ Hardcover ( 1152 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts (Oxford Ethics Series)
Kamm, F.M.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-19
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk
Lattin, Don
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-18
¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Lives & Letters
Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times
Piper, Andrew
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-18
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Books about Books
The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two Discourses and the Social Contract
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-17
¤ Hardcover ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
Paglia, Camille
¤ Pantheon
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-16
¤ Hardcover ( 202 pages )
¤ Category: Art
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy
McCraw, Thomas K.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-15
¤ Hardcover ( 496 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
Ngai, Sianne
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-15
¤ Hardcover ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
The Atheist’s Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed
Minois, Georges
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-12
¤ Hardcover ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Darwin: Portrait of a Genius
Johnson, Paul
¤ Viking Adult
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-11
¤ Hardcover ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: Science
The Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origins of Sex
Long, John A.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-11
¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Fields, Barbara J. ; Fields, Karen
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-09
¤ Hardcover ( 310 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple
Evans, Jean M.
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-08
¤ Hardcover ( 322 pages )
¤ Category:
Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism
McLagan, Meg
¤ Zone Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-05
¤ Hardcover ( 656 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution
Arianrhod, Robyn
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-01
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Science
An Ecology of Happiness
Lambin, Eric
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-01
¤ Hardcover ( 184 pages )
¤ Category: Environmental Studies
William Harvey: A Life in Circulation
Wright, Thomas
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-01
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Health & Medicine
The Archaeology of the Soul: Platonic Readings in Ancient Poetry and Philosophy
Benardete, Seth
¤ St. Augustine Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-30
¤ Hardcover ( 528 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Levenson, Jon D.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-30
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century
Tismaneanu, Vladimir
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-28
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color
Jablonski, Nina G.
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-27
¤ Hardcover ( 178 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Mr. Collier’s Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
Wahrman, Dror
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-26
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Art
The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life (The Terry Lectures Series)
Jr., Donald S. Lopez
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-25
¤ Hardcover ( 168 pages )
¤ Category: Buddhist Studies
Measurement
Lockhart, Paul
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-25
¤ Hardcover ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Mathematics
Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem
Robson, Catherine
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-24
¤ Hardcover ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence
Devji, Faisal
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-20
¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: History: South Asian
Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Rushdie, Salman
¤ Random House
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-18
¤ Hardcover ( 656 pages )
¤ Category: Lives & Letters
Empire and Modern Political Thought
Muthu, Sankar
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-17
¤ Hardcover ( 405 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
Beckwith, Christopher I.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-16
¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: History: Medieval
On Settling
Goodin, Robert E.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-16
¤ Hardcover ( 124 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
Jones, Daniel Stedman
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-16
¤ Hardcover ( 424 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
On Global Justice
Risse, Mathias
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-16
¤ Hardcover ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930
Hoffman, Beatrix
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-15
¤ Hardcover ( 360 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off
Lin, Justin Yifu
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-09
¤ Hardcover ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
As If God Existed: Religion and Liberty in the History of Italy
Viroli, Maurizio
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-09
¤ Hardcover ( 360 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis
Castells, Manuel ; Caraca, Joao ; Cardoso, Gustavo
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-07
¤ Hardcover ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Thieves of Virtue: When Bioethics Stole Medicine (Basic Bioethics)
Koch, Tom
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-07
¤ Hardcover ( 376 pages )
¤ Category:
Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
powell, john a.
¤ Indiana University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-06
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Obama and America’s Political Future (The Alexis De Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)
Skocpol, Theda ; Bartels, Larry M. ; Edwards, Mickey ; Mettler, Suzanne ; Carpenter, Daniel
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-04
¤ Hardcover ( 216 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
Brown, Peter
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-02
¤ Hardcover ( 806 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
Reading the World: Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age
Franklin-Brown, Mary
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-01
¤ Hardcover ( 424 pages )
¤ Category: History: Medieval
Discovering the Human Connectome
Sporns, Olaf
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-31
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: Cognitive Science
Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Huang, Shih-shan Susan
¤ Harvard University Asia Center
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-27
¤ Hardcover ( 526 pages )
¤ Category: Art
How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times
Wells, Peter S.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-26
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology
H., Daniel (edt) Lende
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-24
¤ Hardcover ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West
Jaffa, Harry V.
¤ Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-24
¤ Hardcover ( 290 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
How To Be Gay
Halperin, David M.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-21
¤ Hardcover ( 560 pages )
¤ Category: Queer Studies
The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s)
O’Neill, Paul
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-17
¤ Hardcover ( 200 pages )
¤ Category: Art
The Invention of Heterosexual Culture
Tin, Louis-Georges
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-17
¤ Hardcover ( 216 pages )
¤ Category: Queer Studies
The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown
Hasen, Richard L.
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-14
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category:
Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
Tononi, Giulio
¤ Pantheon
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-07
¤ Hardcover ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Science
The Black Revolution on Campus
Biondi, Martha
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-06
¤ Hardcover ( 366 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
Botticini, Maristella
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-05
¤ Hardcover ( 346 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
The Making of Modern Liberalism
Ryan, Alan
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-05
¤ Hardcover ( 736 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia (Critical Perspectives on Empire)
Hevia, Professor James
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-30
¤ Hardcover ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: History: British & Irish
The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture
Taylor, Timothy D.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-27
¤ Hardcover ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Music
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (New Directions in Critical Theory)
Butler, Judith
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-24
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy
Nooter, Sarah
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-23
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
Manhunts: A Philosophical History
Chamayou, Grégoire
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-22
¤ Hardcover ( 200 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America (Russell Sage Foundation Copub)
Gilens, Martin
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-22
¤ Hardcover ( 348 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy)
Maudlin, Tim
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-22
¤ Hardcover ( 200 pages )
¤ Category: Science
A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
Wu, Hung
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-22
¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Art
Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry
Reddy, Srikanth
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-12
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals
Aronowitz, Stanley
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-10
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Adventure of French Philosophy
Badiou, Alain
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-10
¤ Hardcover ( 430 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Lost Second Book of Aristotle’s Poetics
Watson, Walter
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-27
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
The Ancient Middle Classes: Urban Life and Aesthetics in the Roman Empire, 100 BCE-250 CE
Mayer, Ernst Emanuel
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-20
¤ Hardcover ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe
Schweber, Silvan S.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-18
¤ Hardcover ( 608 pages )
¤ Category: Science
The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics
Harris, Fredrick
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-15
¤ Hardcover ( 232 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn
Isaac, Joel
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-11
¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Education
The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?
Higgins, Kathleen Marie
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-01
¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Music
The Event of Literature
Eagleton, Terry
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Hardcover ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Seeing Through Race (W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)
Mitchell, W. J. T.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Nightingale, Carl H.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Hardcover ( 536 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus
Cooper, John M.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-27
¤ Hardcover ( 456 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind
Arnold, Dan
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-15
¤ Hardcover ( 328 pages )
¤ Category: Buddhist Studies
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
Flannery, Kent ; Marcus, Joyce
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-07
¤ Hardcover ( 648 pages )
¤ Category:
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War
Wasserstein, Bernard
¤ Simon & Schuster
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-01
¤ Hardcover ( 576 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
Nussbaum, Martha C.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-24
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion
Gimbel, Steven
¤ The Johns Hopkins University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-10
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau
Brooke, Christopher
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-08
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Harvey, David
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-04
¤ Hardcover ( 206 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Kandel, Eric
¤ Random House
¤ Publication Date: 2012-03-27
¤ Hardcover ( 656 pages )
¤ Category: Cognitive Science
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
Luhrmann, T.M.
¤ Knopf
¤ Publication Date: 2012-03-27
¤ Hardcover ( 464 pages )
¤ Category: Christian Theology
Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing
Farquhar, Judith ; Zhang, Qicheng
¤ Zone Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-03-23
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category:
The Assumptions Economists Make
Schlefer, Jonathan
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-03-20
¤ Hardcover ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
On Humanity’s Intensive Introspection
Cropsey, Joseph
¤ St. Augustines Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-03-15
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Introduction to Antiphilosophy
Groys, Boris
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2012-03-15
¤ Hardcover ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
Sampson, Robert J.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-02-15
¤ Hardcover ( 552 pages )
¤ Category: Chicago
The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience
Obeyesekere, Gananath
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-02-07
¤ Hardcover ( 644 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology
Critchley, Simon
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2012-02-01
¤ Hardcover ( 302 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton
Strier, Richard
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2011-12-15
¤ Hardcover ( 328 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Searching for Utopia: Universities and Their Histories (The Clark Kerr Lectures On the Role of Higher Education in Society)
Gray, Hanna Holborn
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: 2011-12-07
¤ Hardcover ( 130 pages )
¤ Category: Education
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
Price, Leah
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2011-11-29
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Books about Books
A Case for Irony (Tanner Lectures on Human Values)
Lear, Jonathan
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2011-10-24
¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government
Sparrow, James T.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2011-08-04
¤ Hardcover ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Graeber, David
¤ Melville House
¤ Publication Date: 2011-07-12
¤ Hardcover ( 544 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
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